When Greek and Italian debt yields started to spike we witnessed the rare event of a human-time-scale criticality.
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Over the New Year the optimists had a good run, but the time-scale for growth returning is forever being pushed back.
"We share the Commission's objective of managing the fish stocks on a sustainable basis, but absolutely reject both its chosen instruments and its unrealistic time-scale for recovery, " said an EFAG spokesman.
Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.
In this tight, discreet narrative, which drifts from one memory to another as if love had its own time-scale, the author movingly describes how Jim freed the narrator from the phantoms of her past and the righteousness of her family and friends.
The fact that there has not been a big terrorist attack against the West since the one in Madrid last March does not mean that the threat has gone away: as Osama bin Laden's reference to the wrongs done to Muslims in 8th-century Andalucia shows, Islamist terrorists work on a longer time-scale than most people.
But now medical device makers are introducing an array of new, minimally invasive procedures to provide long-term pain relief without all the costs, risks, complications and recovery time of full-scale surgery.
His large portfolio led to him being dubbed "the minister of the earth and the sky", but it also put him in charge of a large proportion of Senegal's government budget at a time of large-scale infrastructure spending.
And now, for the very first time, a large-scale solar power plant -- the largest of its kind in the entire nation -- will deliver electricity produced by the sun to the citizens of the Sunshine State.
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Mr Brown offered no time scale for moving from pilot projects to full-scale implementation of pet passports, but promised it would occur quickly.
The auto industry has been working on so-called V2V technology for a long time but this is the first large-scale test to see how well it works in the real world.
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The reason utility computing has stayed on the shelf for the past decade or so is that the tools available to aspiring cloud providers (originally called ASPs, or application service providers) were no different than the tools available to the enterprise at the time: high-performance, scale-up hardware systems that were powerful, but expensive and inflexible.
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Changing twice-yearly, past exhibitions included giant photographs and scale models of old-time cabins.
The factory will hire more than 300 full-time Michigan workers when at scale.
This is the first time Zuckerberg has made a large-scale public charitable donation.
The underlying changes in the climatic system could not be reversed over any time scale relevant for decision-makers, limiting the efficacy of traditional recovery measures.
After several years--the time needed to build up the assets to realize the economies of scale--workers would have the opportunity to allocate their funds among any qualified investment accounts that met reasonable and specific standards.
Second, women are more likely to start small scale, part-time businesses to balance work and family.
In early use, the benefits of automated real-time changes seem apparent given the scale of some campaigns.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A laser attack on a lymph node provides the drama behind the top-rated video in Nikon's 2012 Small World in Motion competition, which celebrates time-lapse movies made on a microscopic scale.
Homebuyers with the time, skill and experience to conduct large-scale renovations will find these properties a better value.
The hillside was once covered in rich vegetation but trees had been felled over time to make room for urbanization and small-scale agriculture.
Foreign equity markets are thinner than those of the U.S. and more likely to get 'booked up' over time for foreign firms with annual, large-scale funding requirements.
While it is true that there is very little emphasis on gift-giving or large-scale consumer purchases during this time, there are nevertheless some trading ideas for this holiday, as with most holidays.
Like all first-time visitors I was amazed by the sheer scale and schlockiness of the place.
"As time goes by, the likelihood of a full-scale sale happening is decreasing, " said Mark Harrington, of Bear Stearns.
The Queen's message, broadcast in 3D for the first time, was interspersed with footage from the large-scale UK events of 2012.
Now a team of doctors is trying for the first time to work out the scale of the food-inhaling problem among stroke patients.
The former will take time to scale to make a huge difference day-to-day, and the latter is clearly the most speculative (a subject for another day).
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